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Utah's AI Factory supercomputer, Redtail, is a statewide AI resource created to provide Utah's institutions of higher education, state organizations, and commercial sector with access to advanced computing resources, training, and support. Redtail will accelerate and support research, education, innovation, and AI workforce development across the state.

The Center for High Performance Computing (CHPC) at the University of Utah will manage the Redtail AI Factory for Utah. The supercomputer is built for national impact and will support regional AI innovation across sectors and position Utah as a leader in AI-enabled research and innovation. Redtail represents a significant increase in high-end GPU computing capacity at the University of Utah, fueled by $50 million in investment across public and private sectors over five years.

The Redtail platform is a partnership among the State of Utah, University of Utah, and Huntsman Family Foundation. The supercomputer will advance Utah as a national leader in AI research and innovation, allowing users across the state to train, apply, and scale large AI models across multiple servers with many GPUs.

Enablement is a key aspect of the Redtail program, ensuring that users can successfully access, learn, and apply the resource. This includes training, onboarding, outreach, and utilization support, which will be led by the CHPC in coordination with user representatives from partner organizations. The CHPC has the great privilege of conducting operations and user enablement for Redtail on behalf of the university and state.

Access to Redtail

 

Redtail AI Factory Challenges for Research and Societal Impact

Call for Proposals

We invite researchers, educators, and innovators from Utah System of Higher Education (USHE) institutions to propose AI challenge projects for early access to the Redtail AI Factory.

This early-access call for proposals acts as an accelerator for large, AI-ready, high-impact research and innovation projects, novel projects, or other ambitious ideas that could benefit from access to Redtail and AI enablement resources. Projects that are focused on achieving a defined, near-term, critical milestone are particularly welcome.

※ Once full operations begin, access to Redtail will be primarily managed through an open allocation process on a quarterly basis.

 Learn more and propose a project

Recent updates about Redtail

 

July 2026

Redtail takes flight: Meet Utah's new AI factory supercomputer for research and education

Utah's AI supercomputer, Redtail, is a statewide AI resource created to provide Utah's institutions of higher education, state organizations, and commercial sector with access to advanced computing resources, training, and support. Redtail will accelerate and support research, education, innovation, and AI workforce development across the state.

July 2026

Redtail soars to the TOP500 and Green500 lists

The Redtail AI Factory reached rank 159 on the June 2026 TOP500 list, which ranks the world's most powerful computer systems. The platform also reached rank 76 on the Green500 list, which considers performance per unit of power. These rankings show that Redtail is not only a major investment in infrastructure, but also a major opportunity for Utahns to to pursue ambitious research, education, and innovation with large-scale AI.

About Redtail

 

Further details on the computational resources and services available through Utah's AI supercomputer, Redtail, can be found on the technical documentation.

 Technical information

Last Updated: 7/7/26